The Bully Police Squad Supports Connecticut Attorney General Jepsen
Online, March 23, 2011 (Newswire.com) - Karen Wojcikowski Founder of the Bully Police Squad said today, that they are supporting Connecticut Attorney General George Jepsen, in the fight to make Cyberbullying a felony.
Right now, if a bully who targets kids on the internet is caught, he or she would be charged with a misdemeanor- breach of peace or harassment.
Wojcikowski said " We support Attorney General Jepsen and the new bill , we need to send a strong message that bullying is not a right of passage." " We are behind the Attorney General and support him 100%." Connecticut Anti-Bullying Law below:
1. allow students to anonymously report acts of bullying to teachers and school administrators and require students to be notified annually of the process for making such reports;
2. enable the parents or guardians of students to file written reports of suspected bullying;
3. require teachers and other school staff who witness acts of bullying or receive student reports of bullying to notify school administrators in writing;
4. require school administrators to investigate any written reports and to review any anonymous reports, except that no disciplinary action can be taken based solely on an anonymous report;
5. include a prevention and intervention strategy for school staff to deal with bullying;
6. provide for the inclusion of language in student codes of conduct concerning bullying;
7. require each school to notify the parents or guardians of the bully and bullied student, and include in the notice a description of the school's response, any consequences of future acts, and an invitation for them to attend at least one meeting;
8. require each school to maintain a list of the number of verified acts of bullying in the school and make it available for public inspection, and, within available appropriations, annually report the number to SDE;
9. direct the development of case-by-case interventions for addressing repeated incidents of bullying against a single individual or recurrently perpetrated bullying incidents by the same individual that may include both counseling and discipline; and
10. identify the appropriate school personnel, which cannot be limited to pupil services personnel, responsible for taking a bullying report and investigating the complaint.
